Douglas Shearer Movies

A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.

A poor-but-charming father and son try to enter high society by marrying rich English widows.

Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date.

Wounded criminal Lucky Wilson takes refuge in a small Connecticut farm. He falls in love with the farmer's daughter who at first is unaware of his...

The team behind a successful Broadway production tries to stop the married stars from transitioning to Hollywood.

An exiled archduke (John Barrymore) tries to renew romance with a former lover (Diana Wynyard) now wed to a psychiatrist (Frank Morgan).

Lovely, gifted Irene Foster hopes that her childhood sweetheart-turned Broadway producer Robert Gordon will recognize her--and her talent. Gordon is...

The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.

Aspiring young Scottish politician John Shand enters into an unusual agreement with the wealthy Wylie family -- if they fund his education, he must...

Mary is an impetuous romantic who marries British aristocrat Lord Philip Rexford on a whim. Their marriage is successful, though, and they grow...

A woman is kidnapped when she goes to get help for her husband who is trapped on a beach with the tide coming in to surely drown him.

Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he...

A deeply in debt heiress tries to land a rich man while a collector from the Sheriff's office is guarding the assets in her house.

An Australian blowhard raises two orphaned children as his own in the years leading up to WWII.

Harvard senior Sam Thatcher and his best friend and roommate, known as "The Lippencott", plan to go to Russia after graduation, a decision Sam has...

In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the townspeople, the three robbers retreat into the scorching...

An acclaimed actor and his equally acclaimed actress wife, who have been married for less than a year, are already showing signs of strain in their...

A former housemaid now works as a confidence trickster, but her plans for a big job in California go awry.

Attorney's daughter falls for one of his gangster clients.

Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely...